After a month and a half of packing, moving, cleaning, painting, unpacking, reshelving, organizing and settling in, we are reopen and it feels so glorious! With the exception of our screenprinting studio, we are back to our regular schedule with some slight changes in our hours of operation. Come in for a tour of the new space, and be sure to save the date for our grand re-opening party on September 9th!
In other summer news, when we weren't busy moving, we were:
▪ out at Milepost 5 for our weeklong Show:Tell Camp for Teen Writers and Artists
▪ hard at work on a newsletter project in partnership with CRCI's Liberation Literacy reading group
▪ and partnering with the Multnomah County Rockwood Library makerspace to bring a week of screenprinting workshops to their summer camps
▪ | and partnering with the Multnomah County Rockwood Library makerspace to bring a week of screenprinting workshops to their summer camps |
Tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium at the Jade/APANO Multicultural Space was another highlight of the summer. Students from the Comics Certificate Program and Show:Tell Teen Camp held down the IPRC table at the bustling zine fair on Saturday and Sunday, and we were especially honored to be included in the PZS panel on "Fostering Creativity Through DIY Community Spaces" alongside City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, Carlee Smith of Artist's Milepost and Daylynn Lambi of Marrow PDX.
Finally, this past July marked the last month of Caitlin Harris's tenure as Letterpress Studio Manager. We're so grateful for her unflagging commitment to the IPRC community and letterpress studio over the last 7 years, and it is with gratitude that we wish her the best in her new adventure pursuing an MFA at Boise State University.
Coming up in August, we are looking forward to the graduation of the Comics Certificate Program Students, and we are currently taking applications through August 14th for the 2017 / 2018 Certificate Program. Read on to meet our new Letterpress Studio Manager John Akira Harrold, as well as new Certificate Program Instructor Margaret Malone!